Font Samples (page 1 of 2)

AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L1[ show all samples ]
(AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L1.ttf) Source: Free download from the Database of Indian Sacred Scriptures at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Stats: Version 1.00 has 347 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: Devanagari OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari

AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L2[ show all samples ]
(AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L2.ttf) Note: Has fewer ligatures than AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L1. Source: Free download from the Database of Indian Sacred Scriptures at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Stats: Version 1.00 has 347 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: Devanagari OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari

AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L3[ show all samples ]
(AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L3.ttf) Note: Has vertical ligatures. Source: Free download from the Database of Indian Sacred Scriptures at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Stats: Version 1.00 has 347 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: Devanagari OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari

Chandas[ show all samples ]
(Chandas.ttf) Note: Designed for Classical Sanskrit & Vedic (with accents). This font supports thousands of ligatures and is also usable for modern languages written with Devanagari.Style: Chandas uses the Calcutta/Kolkata style of Devanagari script while its sister font Uttara uses the Bombay/Mumbai style (although it's not evident with the characters used as the sample text). Source: Free download from Chandas. Stats: Version 1.2 has 5,002 glyphs and 1,597 kerning pairsSupport: Devanagari, Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Latin (with extensive coverage of letters with diacritics)OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari, Latin

Lucida Sans[ show all samples ]
(LucidaSansRegular.ttf, LucidaSansDemiBold.ttf, and may be others depending on the source) Note: The LSANS.TTF version of this font supports Latin only. Source: Provided with various products including Sun's free Java Software Development Kit version 1.4.2. Stats: Version 1.20 has 2,929 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Greek (including Coptic characters), Hebrew, IPA, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari

RaghuHindi[ show all samples ]
(RKRaghuHindi_ship.ttf) Warning: There are issues using this font in Microsoft Word. It seems to work OK in other editors including BabelPad, WordPad, Notepad, and WorldPad. Source: Free download from IndiX: Indian Language support for the Linux Operating System. Stats: Version 1.00 has 675 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: Devanagari OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari

Additional Information About These Font Samples

Font sizes for the various fonts above were adjusted to make them roughly the same size for the sake of comparison.

The characters used for the font samples do not necessarily form words but were chosen for visual variety:
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Names, images, properties and additional background/non-technical information about the Devanagari Unicode block and its characters can be found on decodeunicode's Devanagari block page (in English and German/Deutsch).